Update from the far future: SAS was officially enabled in Notepad++ in v8.7.8, so you no longer need to use a script to enable SAS highlighting.

I wanted to add the Stata lexer at the same time I did SAS, but without a GitHub issue requesting it, I couldn’t justify it. If someone can create a GitHub Issue requesting Notepad++ enable the Stata lexer, I could add it to my TODO list, since I now have experience enabling those missing/hidden lexers in Notepad++. You can use https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16148 as an example of an issue requesting a language be enabled – but I would ask that you include keyword lists: The Stata lexer has 2 keyword lists – one for normal keywords, one for data types – so if the Issue/request could include those two lists of keywords, it would make it much easier for someone who knows nothing about Stata to do the addition (since I wouldn’t have to go googling to try to figure out keywords and try to determine which should be called “normal keywords” and which as “types”). If you do create an Issue, please also paste a link here, because I don’t see all new Issues in the repo.

@David-MS said in Notepad++ v8.7.1 (32-bit) NppShell.dll is intermittently crashing Windows Explorer.:

Does exists a workaround

If you mean by this a workaround to not have to completely uninstall the N++ for preventing the Explorer crashes, then yes - unregistering of the NppShell context-menu handler helps: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/99261

or a fix?

I could not exactly reproduce the issue myself but found some potential problematic places in the NppShell source code and put a “hardening” of that code to my TODO. Unfortunately not enough free time yet. More info and possible future progress in the GitHub issue.

@Jschoerner ,

Sorry, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Hopefully, someone else will be able to come in and provide some guidance, because I don’t know what could cause such a glitch.

@PeterJones Thanks!!

@jadelise

FTW! - Many thanks for providing the solution (the nice simple hack the user asked for) - tested on 24H2.

Now I can (finally, after years!) right click on and edit .cmd files. What a relief not to be nagged to install an new version of notepad (even though I have explicitly removed the UWP instance of notepad from the user’s profile. (next – looking for a way to do that globally for the machine. I thought I did so quite a while ago with win10 and “mail and calendar”, but I could very well be mistaken.)

@Robert-Kampfl said in Spracheinstellung (Syntaxhervorhebung - php) geht immer verloren:

It’s set to A = ActionScript when opening any file.

Do you mean “any .php file” or “any .myphp file” or “any file with any extension, whether it’s .txt or .php or .as”?

How or where can I set this to happen automatically again?

Notepad++ generally decides on which syntax highlight Language to use based on the file extension. So, if the file ends in .php, it should automatically be recognized as a PHP file and highlighted properly. Do your files end in .php, or something else?

If they do end in .php, you will want to look at Settings > Style Configurator for PHP and Action Script and make sure there aren’t any conflicting values in the Default ext.: or User ext.: boxes for the two.

A fresh v8.7.5 installation has the following settings for those two languages:

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If you have another file extension that is neither .php* nor .as/.mx (for example, blah.myphp), then you might want to add that extension (without ., like myphp) to the User ext.: box for PHP.

My default setting was always PHP.

Do you mean it used to always use PHP highlighting for .php files by default? Or it used to use PHP highlighting for some other custom extension (like .myphp)? Or do you mean that it used to use PHP highlighting when you create a new file (File > New), even before it’s been saved?

Because the first should be automatic, unless you have a setting conflict. The second, you would have to set the User ext for PHP, as I said earlier. The third, you could set in Settings > Preferences > New Document:

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update: It also might be related to which Theme were you using before relative to now. Because if you had been using one theme (for example, “Hello Kitty”), and had customized the User ext: for “Hello Kitty” on the old installation, but when you upgraded, if you switched to a differernt theme (like the default stylers.xml), then the User Ext would go away (because those are saved on a per-theme basis); or, if you overwrote the theme definition when you upgraded (ie, if you deleted your old installation before installing the new), then when the old copy (“Hello Kitty.xml” for example) was deleted/overwritten, your customizations (including User ext) would be overwritten.

@Susan-Pemble Besides the things @PeterJones suggested you could also try double clicking the title bar area at the top of a window. That will toggle the window it between being a resizable “window” and being full screen maximized.

It may also help for you to post a screen shot of the window you are asking about much like the screen shot you made of Notepad++'s About dialog box in your first post.

Thanks for straightening this out, it was driving me crazy!

@Mike-Albers said:

(?s)^(?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}\r\n|^((?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}).?\r\n|^(?:[^\r\n;]?)\r\n

Unfortunately, your regular expression was corrupted because you didn’t post it correctly.
Probably a moderator will come along and examine your “raw” original post and correct it.

@Claudia-Svenson said in How to enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?:

How can I enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?

Which Theme are you using? It’s possible that your theme file is out-of-date, or that you are a using a theme that has never had the powershell highlighting added, which would prevent Notepad++ from syntax highlighting, even when it is named blah.ps1.

Please see my post here explaining why; and the User Manual’s Themes: Keeping Stylers/Themes Up-to-date entry for more.

@xomx

The problem with uncheckmarking Auto detect character encoding is that most times you want Notepad++ to autodetect the encoding.
It’s only when it does it wrongly that you don’t want it to. :-)

@Lycan-Thrope ,
In hindsight, and after re-reading the issue, it seems that other than the app change removing the AppPosition from the config.xml file(unlikely?), @Alan-Kilborn 's suggestion would be the best for using his GoogleDrive Cloud setup with just one config.xml for multiple machines. He has already rebuffed that, so unless he reconsiders, I guess we’ll have to wait and see if his feature request gets approved and implemented. Moving on.

@Mark-Olson said:

the core developers of Notepad++ prefer Microsoft Visual Studio to Notepad++ for working on the Notepad++ source code. Make of that what you will.

That’s probably because an IDE is wanted for this work, and, as you say, Notepad++ is not the greatest IDE.

and most major programming languages (like the C or C++ it appears you are writing) have better productivity tools elsewhere.

Well, I for one have done pretty well with only Notepad++ for embedded C/C++ work, as well as Python work.

@Ramses505 said in Run multiple search and replace - one after another:

Out of interest - can I run some sort of python script that would do this as well ?

Yes. If you already know Python, the PythonScript plugin can let you automate Notepad++ with Python.

If you don’t know Python, this forum is not the place to discuss how to learn Python. There are countless tutorials on the internet for that purpose. I’ll just mention the re library and leave it at that.

Ah, right. I’ve written so many FAQ for the Community, I forgot FAQ: How do I … Convert my Text exists. That might explain things better, since it had more time put into writing it.

@guy038 Sorry, that does work. I somehow slipped in a space before the RegEx in the MACRO

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you Alan.

@Coises said in Npp v8.7.8 or later hangs for `^.{0,20}` at the end of a file:

Leading comma within curly braces is not a valid syntax, so it’s searching for the beginning of a line followed by any one character and then the literal characters {,20}.

Python’s re allows that syntax of omitting the minimum repetition. To use {,20} instead of {0,20} would be like learning a bad habit compared to Boost or other regex libraries.

https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html quote:

An opening curly bracket that appears in a position where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not match the syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For example, {,6} is not a quantifier, but a literal string of four characters.

This is stated explicitly that {,6} is a “literal string”.

@PeterJones That fixed the issue. Thank you for your help!

@anna-cluckers ,

Notepad++ itself doesn’t have a way to grab a file off of the old laptop.

If you had an external backup of the file, you could copy it from the backup to your new laptop, but it’s doubtful that you’d be asking for our help if you had a backup.

If you had saved your file in a OneDrive or Dropbox or similar cloud folder, then you would be able to download the file to your new laptop from that web service; but, once again, you wouldn’t be asking us for help if it were that easy.

Depending on how bad the “crash” was on the old laptop, the things I can think of:

if you can boot the old, then you should be able to copy the file onto a thumb drive and put it on the new laptop the the old laptop cannot boot, maybe you have a tech-savvy friend who can help you take the drive out of the old laptop, and see if you can get it to be read as a second drive in your new laptop, so that you can copy the file across if the old laptop’s drive is not readable, there’s not much that can be done. (A paid data recovery service might be able to help, but that’s a long-shot.)

But none of these answers has anything to do with Notepad++. Unfortunately, Notepad++ itself cannot help you with recovering the file from another machine, and this Notepad++ Community forum is focused on Notepad++ itself, so if you need more help with recovering a file from your old laptop, you’ll have to go to some “file recovery” forum or something similar, because recovering files from one crashed computer to put onto another computer is not our area of expertise, and is off-topic for Notepad++ discussions.

Sorry.